16/01/2013 Newsround


16/01/2013

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It's Wednesday afternoon, I'm Nel and this is Newsround. In the next

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five minutes: A helicopter crashes in central London, killing two

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people and leaving several injured. And the supermarket beef burgers

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made with horsemeat. First to that helicopter crash in

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central London this morning. The accident happened in Vauxhall just

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across the River Tames from the Houses of Parliament. Police say

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two people including the pilot died in the crash, and a further 12 have

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been injured. I've been following the story.

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8.00am and the emergency services start getting calls saying a

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helicopter has crashed in central London. I heard the helicopter

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flying around and then I heard a bang and I looked out and I see

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bits and pieces flying around. scene of the accident was Vauxhall,

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a really busy part of London for people getting to work. It was

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foggy morning. Police think the helicopter hit a crane on what's

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set to be one of Europe's tallest residential building, St George's

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Tower. No-one was working in the crane at the time. The news started

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to spread, with people taking pictures and videos on their mobile

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phones and uploading them on to the web. In London. Ambulance Service,

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London Fire Brigade and un Fritz the Metropolitan Police were

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quickly in attendance within minutes. All of the fires are now

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extinguished. At that time in the morning it is amazing that more

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people weren't hurt. Accidents like this are really rare. The lis are

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carrying out an investigation to find out what happened. OK, these

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meaty snacks may look tasty but investigations are under way to

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find out ho beef burgers became contaminated with horsemeat, not

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something you would expect to find in a frozen burger. The ingredients

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for your average supermarket beef burger: Beef, water, wheat, flour,

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sugar, horsemeat? Recent tests by the Food Safety Authority of

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Ireland have found that more than a third of the frozen beef burgers

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they looked at contained horse DNA. Now several snuments the UK and

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Ireland have had to take those One sample from Tesco contained 29%

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horsemeat. There are no health risks from horsemeat. In fact it is

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commonly eat no-one many countries around the world, including Italy,

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Mexico and Japan. But most people here would be shocked to find out

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their burgers contained horsemeat, especially when it is described as

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a beef burger. There are lots of different stages of process when

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meats can be mixed by accident. There is the abattoir, where the

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animals are killed, and the factories. These are make -- these

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will make loads of different products, but the levels we are

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talking about has huge. I'm shocked that this amount of an unusual

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amount finds Norman Smith a beef burger. Tests showed that 85% of

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the product had traces of DNA. Tesco has launched its own

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investigation to try and find out ho this hands. It says in future if

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merbz buy beef burgers they will only be tucking into beef.

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Next, show has continued to cause travel problems on the roads.

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Hundreds of schools in Norfolk are closed because of the weather.

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There has been heavy snow as temperatures fell below freezing in

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many parts of the UK. East Anglia is one of the worst affected years,

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with a low of minus 13 Celsius recorded last night. 260 schools in

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Norfolk have been closed today. People have been told not to travel

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unless it is really necessary. But the disruption hasn't stopped some

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of you from enjoying the snow. We have a photo gallery of you out in

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the white stuff. Send us your snaps if it is snowing where you are.

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From our ice cold weather to a scorching performance in Australia,

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as British tennis ace Heather Watson staged another stunning

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comeback to book a place in the third round of the Australian Open.

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